Opening Night

“Gena Rowlands is absolutely stunning in every way in this film. And I love watching her and John act together, especially with her drunk during an improvised play for hundreds of extras who showed up because John took an ad out in the paper.”

Brie Larson

Actor, Director

“Woman and Opening Night show Gena Rowlands at her best. These films contain performances that will never be matched, but are also structural innovations.”

James Franco

Actor, Comedian, Director

“Ample proof of my theory that Gena Rowlands is the greatest American actor or actress ever. Period. No prosthetics, no extreme weight gain or loss, no accents or limps, and yet has any other actor ever created two more distinct, honest, or complete human beings on-screen?”

Michael Imperioli

Actor, Writer

“Opening Night, Faces, Shadows, and the later-added Love Streams are film school for a hundred bucks. We watch the master turn actors into people and vice versa and hold the feeling above anything else.”

Josh Safdie

Director, Writer

“Now that Gena Rowlands has died, I really have to say Opening Night — it's present in All About My Mother.”

Pedro Almodovar

Director, Producer, Writer

“I love her as an actress and am very inspired by her. I love that she always felt to me that she was keeping some secret — like she was very experimental but always stuck to the script.”

Pamela Anderson

Actor